S-STEM: Training for Environmental Stewardship of the US Virgin Islands

S-STEM：美属维尔京群岛环境管理培训

• 批准号: 1356632
• 负责人: Paul Jobsis
• 金额: $ 47.29万
• 依托单位: University of The Virgin Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1356632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Training; Environmental; Stewardship; US

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is providing training and financial support for 20 academically talented, but financially challenged students in Caribbean natural resource conservation and management in its Masters of Marine and Environmental Science (MMES) program. The MMES program is responding to a demonstrated need for professional training in this region with serious threats to its natural resources and whose economic viability is closely tied to the state of the local environment. UVI students and the U.S. Virgin Islands population are comprised predominantly of groups underrepresented in STEM related fields. Many individuals in these groups find that financing education to the level of Masters of Science impossible and therefore move into other careers. UVI is helping to fill the need for professionals with understanding of Caribbean natural resource conservation and management by recruiting students from under-represented groups and providing financial support, academic tutoring, faculty mentors, and funding for research and travel to professional meetings. The intellectual merit of UVI's S-STEM project is based in the MMES program's success in involving students from under-represented groups early in locally-relevant research and developing novel approaches to the conservation of the natural resources of the Caribbean. This project has broad impacts within the territory and beyond through its training of a diverse cadre of future scientists who will ultimately be stewards of the natural resources of the Virgin Islands and similar environments around the world.

维尔京群岛大学（UVI）正在为其海洋与环境科学硕士（MMES）项目中加勒比海自然资源保护与管理专业的20名有学术天赋但经济困难的学生提供培训和财政支持。该地区的自然资源受到严重威胁，其经济可行性与当地环境状况密切相关，因此，MMES计划是为了响应对该地区专业培训的明确需求。UVI学生和美属维尔京群岛人口主要由STEM相关领域代表性不足的群体组成。这些群体中的许多人发现，不可能负担得起攻读理学硕士学位的费用，因此转向其他职业。UVI正在通过从代表性不足的群体中招募学生，并提供财政支持、学术辅导、教师导师、研究资金和参加专业会议的旅费，帮助填补对了解加勒比自然资源保护和管理的专业人员的需求。UVI的S-STEM项目的智力价值是基于MMES项目的成功，它让来自代表性不足群体的学生早期参与了与当地相关的研究，并开发了保护加勒比自然资源的新方法。该项目通过培训多样化的未来科学家队伍，在领土内外产生了广泛的影响，这些科学家最终将成为维尔京群岛自然资源和世界各地类似环境的管理者。